start practicing on wider flat boxes at first, just ride onto them first, 5050, to get the feel of being on it and you can try new tricks from there. jumpwise, smaller jumps and try some grabs first. practice spinning of little piles of snow at first and then move onto some real jumps.

learn to ride switch properly, and learn to carve really well,i know it sounds gay and tedious but you wont progress far in the park if you can not ride switch or do good carves, the reason you need to be able to carve well is for your spins, the spins arent hard, and the thing that makes the spin is the set up turns and windup, these originate from your carves.also practice spins or bumps, rollers, moguls, flat ground and it will help you a lot in park

A good thing to remember when first trying a backside boardslide is to NOT lean back. Keep your hands out in front of you! And learn to ride goofy! Thats the one thing i cant do and I wish I could. Its really holding me back trick wise.

Also u need to take into account how athletic you are and do u do any similar sports as far as jumping, skate boarding and anything that has ramps. ive noticed from all the my friends the have other backrounds in sports tend to understand much faster

Well im in NZ atm, and I was doing some Alley-Oops maybe a bit more then them, I landed them 80% of the time (I did a far amount of them). I have done a few boxes no rails yet, and i can pop off them well but just starting boardslides. First time i tried one i did the thing your not meant to do and leant back, got owned abit but meh. Next time i stared 5050 then sort of turned my shoulders to finish the slide horizontal, and thought big of my self lol. I am feeling more confident and stuff but it will be awesome when i can just go in the park and make everyone else look shit lol.

Yeah, I can ride in and out of switch, just while im in switch I jst cant get from heelside to toeside. The other way round i can but heel to toe i just feel unstable.

Also how much speed should I hit Rails and Boxes with?

TY

just making sure...iv seen some pretty ridiculous people try to hit the park

Lol me too, just today this gumbi skier tried to hit a wide flat box and i think they were still pizza and french frying lol. yes they did get owned.

Well im in NZ atm, and I was doing some Alley-Oops maybe a bit more then them, I landed them 80% of the time (I did a far amount of them). I have done a few boxes no rails yet, and i can pop off them well but just starting boardslides. First time i tried one i did the thing your not meant to do and leant back, got owned abit but meh. Next time i stared 5050 then sort of turned my shoulders to finish the slide horizontal, and thought big of my self lol. I am feeling more confident and stuff but it will be awesome when i can just go in the park and make everyone else look shit lol.

Yeah, I can ride in and out of switch, just while im in switch I jst cant get from heelside to toeside. The other way round i can but heel to toe i just feel unstable.

Also how much speed should I hit Rails and Boxes with?

TY

just making sure...iv seen some pretty ridiculous people try to hit the park

Lol me too, just today this gumbi skier tried to hit a wide flat box and i think they were still pizza and french frying lol. yes they did get owned.

thats a difficult question being that it's all on your comfort...you can't go to slow where you don't make it over but not too fast where you dont even notice your on the box...lol obviously right...but ride up and you'll know if you're too fast or slow generally...

well today i got boardsliding (the one where u look down the mountain) down packed, so i tried to do it on a rail and yes got demolished i tried 5050 it and did ok. its weird i thought the smaller surface wouldnt be that hard but once again im wrong, any pointers for rails?

well today i got boardsliding (the one where u look down the mountain) down packed, so i tried to do it on a rail and yes got demolished i tried 5050 it and did ok. its weird i thought the smaller surface wouldnt be that hard but once again im wrong, any pointers for rails?

damn that sucks man

yea rails are usually harder than boxes cause theres a lot less room for error. if you dont hit it right youll just get destroyed...like you said

honestly for 50-50's on rails i imagine i have a pair of those old school soap shoes on and that im going down the rail with em on...catch my drift...makes me feel like im getting directly centered on the rails...gotta be confident and know you will fall a bunch in the beginning

Wow, when i went to the park, well in NZ anyways it was never busy, just waited for 5 seconds (longest i had to wait) and thats enough time to let me think about what im going to do, but yeah. Night Skiing in NZ was fun cause on the lift i would spot the jumps i would hit and just try do new stuff on the over and over, cheap thrills i guess lol.

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